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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
NnssoS's terms for concerts are 5000 per:

NILssoN's terms for concerts are 50 per;
night. .-. a.. ..,.s,g :. 80
Mr.. BISHOP claims to have n,aie $50, ,OO0by4
his mind-reading exhibitions within the past
two years. .. '' -'i''azt. .
THE losses on the season of German opeia
given in New York this season are said to-
have approximated to $l00, ,OCO '''. So Il
IT is just thirty years ugo that Edwin
Booth made his first sppearnnce in New
York. He played Richard Ill" 9.
WHEN Christine Nilsson began singing she:
got $500 month, but q few yelrS later her.
manager had to pay her 81, 400 night. -
Mrs. LANGTRY will produce Cleopatra p
in New York next September, and will spend
$40, ,OO0 on It, she says. Over 200 people viii
be employed In the production.
HARRY PETTITT, who is tile author Of more
strikingly successful melodrnnns than any
other ,English-speaking writer, intends pay
Ing "the States" visit next autumn. ',-i5zz. s.
NINE. .VALDA, whose Italian opera company
came t" grief in New York last season, has /.
phony Orchestra for the CONCERT TOUR. ~
THE subscription sale for the Patti operntic
season ut the New York Metropolitan Opera
House was a greut sccesS, and brilliant
audiences werc assured for all the perform
ances &
MISS THEREsTNA ADAMS, a young Amcri-
can singer, has been selected by Maestro
Bimboni to create the role OF Morivara in his /
new opera, "Haidouk," which is to be-
brought out soon in Florence. <.s -
TnE success Of the comic OPERA, "Erminic,n
at the Casino, New York, can be guessed
from tile fact that the entire house wns Sold
out for the S)Oth performance rs soon as the
tickets could be delivered from the box Of
lice.
THE manager Of Mr.. DOyly Carte's opcr-
attic companies is Miss Helen Lenoir, who iss
an excellent business woman. She brought
the Ruddygore" company across the At.
lantic and got it to work in New York with
expedition and without fuss. . - :
QUEEN ELIZABETH Of Roumania went
recently incognto to a music teacher in
Bucharest to have her voice tried. The pro-.
fessor bluutly informed her that she Ind just {
about enough voice to qualify hor for the po- :
sition of n chorus girl in comic opera. =, 6,
FIGHT theatres were destroyed by fire last
year. They were in Derby, England, by gas
explosion behind the scenes; at Bochun, Z
Germany, unused; at Ravcnnn, Italy;
Madrid, Orleansville, Algiers. Whites Thea
ire in Detroit, in Lenberg, and in Tinnevally,s s
India -
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RAILROAD ROBBERY.
Scores Of Employees Of the Penn.
sylvania Company Arrested.

Scores Of Employees of the Penn.
sylvania Company Arrested.
The most extensive and systematic railway
robbery on record has been unearthed in
Pittsburgh by the arrest of fifty-six train
men on the Pittsburgh. Cincinnati and st.
Louis Railroad. These men are charged
with robbing the freight cars for the
past two years, taking in that time,
it is estimated, not less than $780,
900 worth of goods. The arrests and
subsequent developments have caused a
great sensation. Many Of the alleged thieves
have been known and recognized as respect
able, harl-working men, and it is init
mated that when all the disclosures
bave been made, other persons, merchants
of supposed good reputation and
respectabihty, will be implicated in
having bought and sold stolen freight, the
booty of the gang OF train employees and
Others who were III the conspiracy. The first
intimation the railroad authorities had of the
time Of the two big freight robberies conf
mitted just outside of Pittsburg recently.
Since then the companys officials and de-
tectives have been diligently working up the
case.
All plans were perfected and the robbers
SpOtted, and at two o'clock the other morning
the denouement fell like a thunder clan on
the gang. A SQUAD of soms fifty policemen
made q raid upon ali the railroad boarding
houses in Pittsbure and captured eighteen
men. At the same time another squad sur.
rounded the trains as they came into the Sec
ond avenue station, and in this way twelve
more men were captured. Sufficient evidence
has been secured to prove that the MANY rob-
berries along the Panhandle Railroad, in which
cars were ransacked at various points and
valuable goods stolen, was the work of these
men.
Out Of eighty freight crews on the Pitts
burgh division, seventy-five of them are i'm.
plicated in the wholesale robberies. 1t was
also discovered that many of the crews were
in the habit of becoming intoxicated while on
duty on stolen liquor. They were all flush, land
many times the cabooses were almost filled
witb the stolen goods Thev srnoLed tbe f1nest
af cioars drank the hest of iionors and had
their pockets filed with the finest Of iewelry.
This was ali discovered two months AGO. but
much difficulty was experienced in ascertain
ing the extent of the operations. Every DAVIS
work on the case gave new developments
until the officers Of the company held up
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Ii New York, = Dig plum falls to the
city on account of the decision of the
United States Supreme Court legalizine
the taxation of National Bank shares.
The amount now due and unpaid, cover
ing tive years, is So, 500, 600. One official,
the City Marshal, whose business it is to
collect this tax, Will net the tidy sum of
$6s, 500 in fees for his services in this
direction. The city will collect seven
per cent. per year on the amount hitherto
.1nnai1
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FARMERS FIGHT. /:

Killing Seven Enemies and Receiy.g
ing Half Dozen Wounds.
Walter Ridgely, prominent farmer living
eighteen miles north of Te1nrkana, Ark, was
lured from his house the other night by three
members Of the Murphy family, who at..s
tempted to assassinate him. In the fght that
dozen wounds himself. A month ago he killed.
two of the Muphys in dispute about extort.
ing money from a drummer. A few days
later he was aribushed and his horse killed,
but he succeeded in killing two moro OF the Z
family. The score now stands Bevon' to none,
but as Ridgely will doubtless die, having re-
ceivedfve balls from Winchesters, it may be !
seven to one. ....... --,
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A Minneapolis genius, it issaid, has in
vented an automatic arrangement for at
tachment to stoves in railroad cars, that
in the slightest overthrow OF the car In
jects an acid preparation into the fire COM
pletely extinguishing it and removing all
possibility of igniting the adjoining
woodwork.
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Last summer men went through sore
New England towns, leaving trial bottles
of medicine, not to be paid for urtess
used. Recipients were asked only for a
written acknowledgment. Several now
find in the hands of third parties notes for
$25, bearing their signature.
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Farmer Keith, of Runnels County,
Texas, is noted for his big besrd. 1t is
said to be five feet four inches long, and
twenty-onc inches wide in its broadest
prrt. 1t is of rich chestnut color, and
its owner, prosperous sheep grower, is
very Droud of it.
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Washington.

THE President has appointed as Commits
sioners to investigate the affairs of the Pacific
Railroads, under the act passed by the last
Congress: Ex-Governor Robert E. Pattison. of
Pennsylvania; E. Elery Anderson, of New
York, and David L. Littler, of Illinois.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent: Eugene Zenlple of Washington Terri
Samuel D. Shannon of Cheyenne to be Secre-
tary of Wyoming Territory, Edward Palmer
Turner of New York to be Consul at Mozam-
bique.
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SUMMARY
Eastern md Middle States.

THE late Miss Wolfe has left her magnif-
cent collection of paintings, believed to be
the finest in the country, to the New Iork
Metropolitan Museum of Art, together with
S2OO. 900 in cash, to be expended in caring Tor
the pictures. Miss Wolfe also left s35O, ,OO0 to
Grace Church in New York. The paintings
are valued at S5O0,000.
THE fishermen of the Eastern States are so
enraged at the action of Canadian cruisers
that they demand non-intercourse or war
Twoearthquake shocks of considerable Sc
verify visited Burlington, VT, and vicinity.
EXTRA elections in Rhode Island have re-
suited in further gains by the Democrats:
giving them the Legislature on joint ballot and
insuring them their candidates for Lieutenant
Governor and other State officers who did not
receive a clear majority at the first election.
Two of the twenty persons burned in a
New York tenement fire died OF their IN
juries.
THREE workmen employed on the new New
York aqueduct were killed by the falling OF
q cage down a Shaft.
TRENTON, n j., for six years in control
of the Democrats, has gone Repubhcan at the
municipal election.
Miss MINNIE KEITER, of Pottsville, Penn,
and her roommate at EaSsar College, Miss
Verlista Shaul, Of Sharon Springs, n T.,
were being escorted through q coal mine at
the former place by two young men when
there was sudden explosion of accumulated
gas. Miss Keiter was killed and Miss Shaul
fatally injured, both being frightfully
n,angled. The twomen may recover.
A LARGE furniture factory On Canal
street, New York, was partly destroyed by
fire. Two fireman were badly hurt. Esti-
mated damages, $4,000.
GOVERNOR HILL has vetoed the bill pro-
viding for high license in New York City and
Brooklyn, mainly on the ground of its un.
constitutionality and because it is Especial
legislation"
ALFRED LEE, Bishop Of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in Delaware, died at Whining
ter Tuesday, aged 80 years.
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South and West.

Pat MCCARTHY was hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark, for the murder of the Mahoney
brothers.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE was taken sick q
few days since at Fort Gibson, Indian Terri
tory, where he had gone to visit his daughter,
wife Of Colonel Coppinger, the Commandant
of that post. Mr. Blaine's sickness resulted
from bad cold, but the post surgeon tele-
graphed that his patient was doing well, and
would be.able to travelagain in a fewdays.
GREAT prairie fires have done immense
damage in Dakota In Grant township
Edward Maloney and Miss Annie Marine
were burned to death and Miss KATE Maloney
received fatal injuries.
THE Cherokee Female Seminary at Table
quab, Indian Territory, has been destroyed
ty fire. Loss, $780, 200.
JOHN T. RAYMOND, the well-known COM
median, died few days since at Evansville,
Ind, aged fifty-one years.
1T is now stated that the farmers of the
Northwest will suffer heavily under the new
Interstate Commerce law, which it was sup
supposed would be for their benefit. They
will have to bear the burden of higher freight
rates charged by the railroads
THE Atlanta Constitution snna.nees that
President Cleveland will positively visit the
Piis i3m0nt Exposition to be held in that city
next October.
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court of Penhsiylvani,

llered a decision declaring the
Deleomargasinc law passed at the last ses-
sion of Congress constitutional. Attor-
ney. General Garland had previously given
his opinion sustaining the constitutional
ity of the law.
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WIS McLEos, an insane veteran Of New
York regiment, has been awarded arrears OF
pension amounting to s12, ,4SS, which will be
paid to his father at the Des Moines Qowa}
agency,
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GREAT BRITAIN has demanded 81, ,0O0, 600
from Hayti as settlement in full Of all de-
mands If not paid at once, Tortugas Island
is demanded to square accounts
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The new narrow gage incline railroad up
Lookout Mountain, just completed, has cost
about S2GO.OOO. 1t runs from the foot OF the
mountain to the spot where General Joe
Hooker planted his flag.
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IHE Amherst College Alumni Association
has taken steps to cndow professorShip in
that college in honor Of Henry Ward Beecher,
who was graduated in the class of 1894. The
sum necessary for the purpose is sG0,0O0
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FARM lands in the neighborhood Of Coo
Edge, Kansas, have advanced to $3.50 per
acre, on account of the unexpected develop
ment of two valuable veins Of coal
Omaha daily bee., 1887-02-27
he one that wears glasses.
Little Bits OF Fun.

''WEo is the god of battles?" asked a
teacher of The class in mythology
Mar" answered little johnny Henpeck
Mars, you mean, Johnny" corrected
the teacher. "No, l don't, neither. 1
only got one mar"
"If you want to look for line marks, J"
said the boy to the palm reader, you
needn't examine my hand, for that's the
wrong place. You want to look at the
spot where the old man larruped me
with the clothes line"
A rooster may crow as clear as bell
And be ''cock OF the walk" all day,
But he can't lay an egg with hard white
shell
Because he amt built that way.
Levy and Marks were playing poker.
The former sat in splendid luck He
Won 80 on three trays and SIS Jackpot
on pair of aces. Marks stood the drain
us long as he could, and then said:
Weeping Rebecca! Levy, I'd rather
have your luck than license to steal g"
20, can knock the champion out?'
Some rising slugger cries;
He ''reads the answer in the stars"
That dance before his eyes.
"Chestnuts!" yelled several persons in
the gallery ct the minstrel show, That's
right gentlemen" responded Bones;
III you don't get what you want ask for
When Virginia mountaineer wants q
chew of tobacco this according to one
who has been there) Is the way he asks
for it: stranger. gimme chaw yer
black fiat chawIn' terbacker; that is, ef
yer chaw. dunno ef yer chaw er no;
do yer chaw?"
Omaha daily bee., 1887-02-27

in my saddle, fearing that the next MN
ute might be my last. For time my cap
tive rent the air with his cries, which So
frightened my pony that | soon saw tina,
/ need not urge him; he was doing his
level best.
Soon the screaming grew less frequent
and finally ceased altogether, and
noticed with satisfaction that the lasso
remained perfectly taut all the time
then for the first time looked back and
from appearances concluded that my
captive was dead. l had, however, as
can perhaps be imagined, strong de
sire to make assurance doubly sure and
rode some distance further before stop.
ing.
Even then / was in no haste to dis.
mount until had ridden around the
huge cat several times, and assured my.
self beyond all doubt that he was dead
He proved to be fine specimen, meas.
uring a little over four feet from snout
to tail root (his tail measured twenty-six
inches), but the long drag had given
him, fully half a mile l should say, Fad
almost spoiled his skin. The lasso had
worn completely through the skin around
the neck, and buried itself in the flesh
indeed believe If had dragged him
much further 1t would have decapitated
him complctely
Omaha daily bee., 1887-02-27

Pail Mall Gazette: Some of the details
of cross-examination in the now famous
libel action of Pankhurst VS. Sowler Man
chester Courer) before Justice Hawkins
are too funny to pass by. tor instance:
Did you say with relation to the franchise
bill that mo oriental despot had ever
conceived tyranny so insolent in its
bearing?n az the attitude of Lord Sails
bury II did" replied the determined
doctor, ''and am sorry to say it is
true" "Did Salisbury bring an action
against youY' II wish he had" "But he
didn'ts" No" Now, in another part
of the speech did you speak of the mem
bers of the house of lords as lot of prize
gooseberriess' Loud laughter. Ger.
tainly; prize gooseberries.' Renewed
laughter. Dr. Pankhursts point of law
in this action as against the newspaper,
is, 1T should be remembered that it is not
and can not be for the public good to
publish Il 'blasphemous story whether
true or false. Whatever may be the law
or however it may press upon the editor
Of newspapers. nobody can deny that Dr..
Pankhurst is making d gallant fight of it,
with a good deal of fun thrown IN.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-02-27
Telegraph Operators, Secrets.

Electric Age avery telcgrapher will tell
you how operators quarrel over the wire
The men who are the most quiet and gem
tlemanly in their personal relations are
sometimes the most disagreeable TO work
with. 1t IS so easy, you know, to call
of wire separate you, and, besides, the
fear of the consequences Is very slight.
| shall never forget an amusing fight
once heard between an operator at Xenia,
Ohio, and another at Cincinnati. After
each had exhausted his vocabulary of
billngsgate the operator Mt Cincinnati
suddenly subsidized and refused to con.
tihue the contest, whereupon Xenia
snapped out:
Whats the difference between you
and jackassg" Quick US a flash came
the reply: Just sixty miles. Give me
harder one."
us it true" asked one of the bystand.
ers, that an operators mood may be
determined by his manner of using the
key2"
you have been in the habit of working
regularly with a man you can tell before
whether he is feeling fresh and buoyant,
tired or lazy or out of sorts by his man
ner of transmission. There is rs much
individuality about mans sending as
about his penmanship, and he can he as
readily distinguished by it. A case in
point is related by ALI Saville, who
worked one of the government wires be-
tween Nashville and Louisville during
the war One day, while the wires were
idle, some one at an intermediate station
called at the Nashville Office and began
asking Saville q number of questions
about the movement of troops and other
matters connected with the army. Be-
fore two minutes Saville recognized his
man.
go say, George Ellsworth, what the
devil are you doing thereg" flashed Sa-
vile, cutting into the middle of SEN
tence. There was moments pause,
and then came the answer slow and
hesitatingly:
1 cut in on the wire two days ago,
and have secured good deal of inf0r-
nation, but l might have got more if I
had only kept my mouth (koy) shut.
Goodby, Alf. am going There was
a sudden click of the wire, anu then the
circuit closed.
Ellsworth was the celebrated con.
federate operator who accompanied John
Morgan in his raids through Kentucky
and Ohio. Saville and he had worked
together before the war, and had become
familiar with each others STYLE"
Omaha daily bee., 1887-02-27

devotion, to the shrine at which he wor-
ships. He cannot, in the sacred precincts
of the sanctuary, turn aside to maggie
over the price of poultry, TO cheaper tue
cost of fuel, to wrangle over the outlay
for laundry work or the monthly stipend
of domestic service.
The literary man and woman are ut
terly unlike everybody else; they have
their special temperaments,th their ndivid-
ual idiosyncrasies, their peculiar methous
of thought, their positive sympathies, and
dislikcs. TO yoke man of this kind
with an ordinary woman Is not only to
impair his capabilty to carry on his
work, but il is to fasten on him lie oil
wretchedness. The same is true OF the
literary woman. Ally her to the average
man, and she is at once provided with
ball and chain which she must drag at
every step Of her progress. While neither
the literary man or woman can, with
benefit, marry outside of the profession,
ii is more dangerous and deleterous to
marry within It, The most undesirable
of unions are those in which two literary
people resort to marriage, the case of the
Brownings to. the contrary notwithstand-
ing. Where there has been one instance
of Browningism in matrimony there have
been thousand cases in which the direct
opposite has been the result,
The explanation IS very simple. A
nUSDuI1u anu W1IC titNOlCl lO
clash eternally on the same plane. 1t is
a case of an encounter of the invincible
and the irresistible. The essential differ
ences of sex beget irreconcilable antagon-
ism; the respective ideals projected by
each necessarily differ as do masculine
strength and feminine delicacy. They
can not agree; 1t is a union without at.
finity, mechanical composition without
cohesion in the particles. In the in
stance of literary men and women who
marry outside of their domain, there is
often more happiness to be found than
within, and vet the rule is that such
unions are disastrous. 1t is especially so
with women of brains who select u part
ner from out of the masses; there are
more divorced literary women in existence
than there are wives of the same pro.
fession This class of woman, if she
marries one of her kind, seeks for intellec-
tual domination over her husband; If she
secures 1t, she despiscs him for his weak
ness; if she loses it, she hates him as Il
tyrant.
The literary husband with wife not
IN sympathy with him is rarely happy,
and never able to accomplish the com
plete intellectual results that he would if
unincumbered by such burden. He is
demoralized by domestic wrangles, and
want of sympathy, and inceasing con-
tact with the commonplace. In view of
all these facts, it is best that the literary
people should determine on celibacy.
To marry is to commit intellectual hara-
kari; to diminish largely the utility of
life's services, and to add vastly 10 the
unhappineSS of the participants.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-02-27
Where Husbands are Considcrate

w mere J1nsDhuus Vre SOusIucrate.
Atlanta Constitution: If a girl must
marry, and Brooklyn man comes along,
we advise her to take him.
In Brooklyn husbands know their
duties, and when they fail to come up to
the mark they acknowledge their short
comings and clamor for punishment.
Take a recent case. A young man ap-
peared in Brooklyn court, the other
day, and asked the Judge to have him ar
rested. His honor demanded an expla-
nation, and the visitor stated that he had
been guilty of cruelty to his wife. When
pressed for particulars he said that while
he had not beaten his wife or neglected
her for the flowing bowl, he had been
cruel to her from financial standpoint
In other words, he had not given her
money enough to properly support her.
Further questioning developed the fact
that his wife had preferred no charge
against him. After thinking the matter
over the Judge begged the young man to
go home and give himself another trial
The advice was accepted and the culprit
left the court room.
Now taking it for granted that this
young man was an average Brooklyn
husband, the case is rich in suggestions
Let wife have n proper amount of firm
ness and enterprise and it is plain that
such husband would be bonanza to
her. If these soft hearted Brooklyn men
do not come into great demand all over
the country it will be because our girls
are not looking after their interests. The
incident is full of encouragement. 1t
gives us glimpses of the model husband
of the future.